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Show I EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH THE PATHFINDER of the Seas ni;- -: ' ' -- ffi ' " DAMAGE BY FIRE PURCHASE ENGINE CONTRACT TO BE LET WOOL POOL SHIPPED SCOTT WATSON n HE other day the busts 21 of four great Americans were unveiled in the V mm n Hall of Fame of New York university. One of h them was that of a President of the United another of a TSjg; States; American poet ; great J and the third of a great, perhaps the greatest, imerican painter. To every Ameri-- n the names of James Monroe, Walt ftltman and James Abbott MacNeil Ostler are familiar enough, but how any would recognize the name of man thus honored Mat-ieie fourth Fontaine Maury, an officer In the inlted States navy? Yet, in his field activity, Maury was as great If not reater than were the others in theirs, of nd it is one of the parodoxes merican history that, as a recent ograptier of him said, "No other nt American has ever received so any honors abroad and so little at home as has Matthew Fon- - j4j ICyN. By ELMO nJ A line Maury." Belated though the recognition has It must be said that his country-ke- n have given that recognition in a bmewhat full measure In recent teen, Three years ago there was hcted In Richmond, Va., the state tbich claims him as one of her great tears. the Seas" and the recent at New York university was gesture of tribute to the faker of modern scientific navigation. For sailormen the world over know be name of Maury. To this day the charts Issued at regular intervals Slot hydrographic office bear the no tion "founded upon the researches lade by Matthew Fontaine latry." To this day weather fore sting Is done in accordance with fun- pamental principles established by Jtanry, and to this day his scientific jests, revised in accordance with more feecnet discoveries, are studied in the pools. Nor were these the only con tributions of this Tennessee farm boy fho became the leader In establish- mean's conquest of the seas. For the Old Dominion calls Sg hers, Tenessee also has a claim 'athfinder of fcremoDv in idded ... (Calm him. near Fredericksburg, Va., In the descendant of a listinguished Huguenot family that ettled in Virginia in 1718, a real F. F. His father migrated to Tennessee fben Matthew was a boy and there p the forests near Franklin, 18 miles forth of Nashville, he grew up. From beginning he was adventurous by lature and he decided'to join the navy. Respite the opposition of his father, midshipman's warrant was secured Fai Gen. Sam Houston, then "a reDre- btatlve from Tennessee. With $75 Mich he had saved un. he bought an fd gray mare and set out upon the m ride to Virginia. When he ar-ped at the home of a cousin near Parlottesville he had exastly 50 cents P his Docket Pushlnff nn to Wash ington, he was ordered to report to Pe C S. S. Brand v wine which was put to sail for France to take back distinguished visitor. Lafayette. In fernally, one of the midshlDtnen on Ms frl2at rona n vnnnirafor nnmpd fwld Glasgow Farragut rom the beginning young Maury Rde a name for himself as "a horse w work." Havlne seen Lafavette Wely home, Midshipman Maury's next Erulse was along the coasts of South America. In 1829 he Joined the s for a cruise around the world. ,eig anxious to make sneed on this rlP he searched for Information about Availing winds and currents and was """Prised to find that no such data plated. This eave him the insniration for tiie great work which he was to Bom Maury was 1? I? p Vin-nnc- no iat(,r After finishing this cruise Maury !ent ashore for awhile, returned to ;reder!okshiirf mnrrlaH tha swppN Peart of his youth, Ann Herndon of city, and lived there for the next yen years. Encouraged by the pub- "Catioil of his nnrrnttvA nn nnvl?ntlncr the Horn, Maury decided to become a flter. Fnmo rnmo in him nlrrwiQt 'mmedinMr Ilia hnnlr "Mom Thonrpt. l and Practical Treatise on Navlga-ti(,n.- " the first work on nautical ttlence ever written by an American "aval officer, won such Immediate I approval thnt it replaced Bowditch's Worlf, long the standard, as the text fJ)l f i - ; ' m1- - ' "Si 1 xrii Richmond, , VyA r Va. of the navy. Although others share with him the title of "Father of Annapolis," and there were those who anticipated him in urging a naval academy, it must be admitted that his Insistence was largely responsible for the founding of such an institution. All this time Maury was trying to get back to sea duty, but an unfortunate accident In a stage coach which made him a cripple for life prevented his return to active duty. By this time his scientific fame was so great and his usefulness so evident that the secretary of the navy, In order to take full advantage of those qualities, made him superintendent of the depot of charts and instruments which later became that Institution of Inestimable value, the United States naval observatory. There Maury went further into the study of astronomy, so closely associated with navigation, and became one of the leading astronomers of the period. But this was only a minor part of his work. Recalling his dismay when, as sailing master of the Falmouth, he had sought in vain for information which would aid him in sailing that vessel, he set about examining all of the log books which had been tossed aside as rubbish within a short time after the voyages were completed. In these he discovered a veritable gold mine. By charting the courses of all tl9 vessels recorded there, he saw that it would be possible to figure out the prevailing winds and currents at each season of the year over any portion of the high seas. Realizing that it was too big a Job for one man he Bought aid from the higher authorities but, as is so often the case with projects of immense importance, he could not communicate the extent of his vis-Io-n to his superiors. So he went at It alone and after five years of most painstaking labor he published his "Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic." To supplement this he issued an abstract log for navigators, made up of advice upon what he had already learned, with blank pages in which they were to make observations each blanks were to be day. The filled-Ireturned to Maury for compilation of more sailing directions. To get the of captains of the various ships, he told them that he could cut the sailing time of some of the voyages from ten to fifteen days, and thus it was to their advantage to aid him In making further studies. Within a year navigators had taken out five thousand of his charts and three years later he had manuscripts recording over a half a million days' observations in every corner of the globe. By 1853 his work had won fame that a naval such world-wid- e conference was called In Brussels, Belgium, to which naval experts from many countries came to help work out this marvelous new science, and Maury returned to America laden with honors and Inspired to new endeavor. He had shown the seamen of other nations how to win In their race against time. For Instance, previous to Mau n I OCiSSye. 1 ' book of junior officers ; " 1. Symbolic figure of the world which stands on the pedestal above the statue of Maury at Richmond, Va. 2. Bust of Matthew Fontaine Maury, by F. William Sievers, recently unveiled in the Hall of Fame at New York university. 3. Statue and memorial to Maury at ""V J ff l . , f j LL- -, . 11 ?Jl Jl rJ&kl jt ' T - .r" 'J ry's researches, the trip from New York to San Francisco around Cape Horn was a voyage of 180 days. Maury first showed how to cut this to 133 days, then to 110 days and In 1851 when the famous Flying Cloud made Its trip it did it in exactly 90 days. The value of all this was Immediately evident to all maritime nations. Profiting by Maury's work, British commerce was already saving ten million dollars a year and his "Sailing Directions" were becoming increasingly valuable as he added new data and made new computations. One more triumph was to be added to his career before it went into something of an eclipse. During his study of the log books he had discovered much interesting Information about the Gulf Stream and this suggested a study of that current and other currents. The result was a book "The Physical Geography of the Sea," a title suggested by the great German scientist, Humboldt, who told the American that it was his observations that founded this new science. From his study of the soundings recorded in the log books Maury discovered the "Atlantic Plateau" or "Telegraphic Plateau." At this time Cyrus W. Field was trying to lay the first Atlantic cable. Field gave him full credit when he said "Maury furnished the brains, England the money, and I did the work." years old, at Maury was fifty-fou- r the height of his fame and the hight of his powers, when the rumblings of Civil war gave notice of the tragedy which was so soon to follow. Lame and past the age for active service, he might well have remained in his observatory far from the raging conflict, making his charts and carrying on his scientific work. But instead, loyal Virginian that he was, he chose to cast his fortunes with his native state. At three o'clock on April 20, 1861, Lieutenant Maury (for despite his worldwide fame he was still only a lieutenant in the United States navy) with tears in his eyes, turned the records of the observatory over to the next in authority and left the building forever. He served as a commodore in the Confederate navy, spending the greater part of his time in England in an secure recogunsuccessful attempt-tnition of the Confederate states. Before going to England he had been engaged in a strenuous effort to gain support for his plan of having the Confederacy afloat before the North's growing navy could overwhelm It But again the lack of imagination of higher-ups made his efforts useless. When the Civil war ended Maury found himself an exile in England. The emperor Maximilian invited him to Mexico and he became Imperial commissioner of emigration. One of his projects was for a colony of Virginians south of the Rio Grande, but it never materialized. In 1S68 the act of amnesty made It possible for him to return to the United States. He had been offered the directorship of the Imperial observatory at Paris by Napoleon III, with a large salary and every facility for carrying on his researches. But he chose to return to his native, and Impoverished, state as professor of physics at the "Virginia Military Institute. There he spent the last five years of his life still Investigating and still writing books on geography and astronomy. He died in 1873 and his body was buried temporarily at Lexington. It had been his wish to be buried in Goshen Pass on the bank of the North Ann river and almost his last words were "Carry my body through the Pass when the Is In bloom." In June of that year his body was born through Goshen Tass, the coffin covered with rhododenron blossoms and carried on to Richmond where In Hollywood cemetery, he now lies. But Goshen Pass still remembers him. In It there stands a simple column of granite and on a bronze tablet at the base of an anchor are these words, "Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the Sea" ((0) Wade, Manager of the Internation- al Grain Growers, Inc., announce the control by purchase or lease of forty-fivgrain elevators; 14 in e .1 " f"' V-,- " j ' vg 4 S'Jrl iTL fl j LJ'' '' 'Iff J-f- A $4 "Ttv p f I w rec-jnlti- CSOI YNLj v4T3J3&2p w NT-Syp O 1 ; OGDEN, UT. M. G. Pence, Manof the Farmers' National Grain corporation, and Jess W. ager - n Bf Jtmen Briefly Told by Busy Readers m? j Sally Scz Intermountain News by Western Newspaper Union.! Utah and 31 In Idaho. OGDEN, UT. Damage estimated at between $4,000 and $5,000 resulted from fire of undetermined origin to the carpenter shop of the Utah Industrial School. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Although fatalities resulting from traffic accidents in Salt Lake City this year are less by one than for the corresponding period in 1930, the death toll for the state totaled 57, as compared with 47 during the same' period last year, according to the records of W. E. Jukes, in charge of the police traffic bureau. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. The municipal airport must have additional acreage on the west to make possible an runway before a federal department of commerce rating can be granted. Local people believe that should a suitable airport be established here, mail and passenger planes would make regular stops. TWIN FALLS, IDA. J. W. Ran district dall of Ogden, Utah-Idahmanager of the Amalgmated Sugar company, after inspecting sugar beet fields in this area reported that although some leaf hoppers were in evidence, there would be a fair beet harvest this season. OGDEN, UT. A contract will soon be let for the construction of federal aid the Idaho project. nYRUM, UT. The Hyrum Irrigation project will be recommended to Dr. Elwood Mead, U S. Reclamation commissioner, for federal aid, by the Utah state water storage commission, it was reported here. LOGAN, UT. A. O. Anderson, commander of the .local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, announces their charter will be held open until some time in August. CHALLIS, IDA. The two-spa- n steel bridge across Salmon river three miles south of here, has been completed and will open for travel as soon as the concrete floor has become thoroughly set. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. The city council and electric light commit' tee at a meeting of the council recommended the proposal to purchase a $60,000 Diesel engine be referred to the finance committee. AMERICAN FALLS, IDA. Work wide bridge to on the new replace the old Montgomery bridge on the Old Oregon Trail near Bonanza bar will be completed soon. GOODING, IDA. Gooding county's tax collections for the second half period ending June 21, were at $150,000 compared estimated with $160,513 paid last year. LOGAN, UT. Cache county has 558 cows on test in five associations which produced more than 48 pounds of butterfat during a single month, according to a report issued by R. L. Wrigley, county agent. BLACKFOOT, IDA. Increasing Interest in development of Ayrshire dairy cattle has led the "eastern Idaho district fair board to offer premiums in this new division at 2. the fair September IDA. BURLEY, Shrinking the least amount of any consignment of lambs ever sold on the market by Cassia county lamb pool members, the third pool of the season $7.75 per hundred In Drought Omaha for fat lambs and $5.25 for feeders.. IDA. Federal BLACKFOOT, and state departments and Bingham county commissioners have entered into a triangular agreement on expenses In an effort to rid the county of tubercular cattle. POCATELLO, IDA. 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